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Best Arm Identification in Stochastic Bandits: Beyond $β-...
Arpan Mukherjee, Ali Tajer · 2023-01-10 · via stat.ML updates on arXiv.org

This paper investigates a hitherto unaddressed aspect of best arm identification (BAI) in stochastic multi-armed bandits in the fixed-confidence setting. Two key metrics for assessing bandit algorithms are computational efficiency and performance optimality (e.g., in sample complexity). In stochastic BAI literature, there have been advances in designing algorithms to achieve optimal performance, but they are generally computationally expensive to implement (e.g., optimization-based methods). There also exist approaches with high computational efficiency, but they have provable gaps to the optimal performance (e.g., the $β$-optimal approaches in top-two methods). This paper introduces a framework and an algorithm for BAI that achieves optimal performance with a computationally efficient set of decision rules. The central process that facilitates this is a routine for sequentially estimating the optimal allocations up to sufficient fidelity. Specifically, these estimates are accurate enough for identifying the best arm (hence, achieving optimality) but not overly accurate to an unnecessary extent that creates excessive computational complexity (hence, maintaining efficiency). Furthermore, the existing relevant literature focuses on the family of exponential distributions. This paper considers a more general setting of any arbitrary family of distributions parameterized by their mean values (under mild regularity conditions). The optimality is established analytically, and numerical evaluations are provided to assess the analytical guarantees and compare the performance with those of the existing ones.